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From cooperation to collaboration. How reflection and choice of tool can influence the discussion.

The weeks are passing quickly, and we are now half way through the course. The last two weeks have not only brought many new ideas into my mind, but also gave me the opportunity to co-lead topic 3 with Bianca from Germany. Topic 3 was about collaborative learning, which encouraged to reflect on collaborative learning in …

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“go out and collaborate”

One of the best things with this course is that I rememeber how it was to be a student again. This only will improve my teacher skills in terms of greater empathy for the students. It is really interesting how I require my students to work collaborative without reflecting on collaboration, as discussed by Kearsley […]

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Topic 3 Collaborative learning

Collaboration is hard! Collaboration is teamwork, discussing, participating, disagreeing, agreeing and getting there together. Not one by one.  We all have lots of experience with group work. Most of the time group work equals cooperative work. We divi…

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Topic 3: Learning in Communities: An Experience with Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning (CL) as an educational approach to teaching and learning, is not a new concept. In my current practice, I have used CL in several modules as a teaching/learning approach as it allows for learners to converse with peers, listen to different perspectives, articulate and defend their ideas (Laal & Laal, 2012). With CL,Continue reading “Topic 3: Learning in Communities: An Experience with Collaborative Learning”

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Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

The topic In this topic ‘Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning’, our PBL group were interested in the term ‘connectivism’. I particularly enjoyed reading the original article on this by George Siemens from 2005. There were so many aspects included in the founding of this –ism that I found fascinating. First, he comments on … Continue reading Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

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Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

The topic In this topic ‘Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning’, our PBL group were interested in the term ‘connectivism’. I particularly enjoyed reading the original article on this by George Siemens from 2005. There were so many aspects included in the founding of this –ism that I found fascinating. First, he comments on … Continue reading Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Collaborative learning online or offline?

I have been struggling to finding the difference between online collaborative learning and on campus collaborative learning. Is there a difference? What is the difference? Brindley et al. (2009) examined the influence of grading on the participation in group work in an online course, without finding any effect. Instead they concluded that there are severalContinue reading “Collaborative learning online or offline?”